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Around 2,000 to 3,000 people are arriving a day in Greece by boat but Macedonia is only letting through just a few hundred per day creating a rapidly rising backlog.

Ioannis Mouzalas, a Greek minister for immigration policy, has already warned that the country risks becoming the "Lebanon of Europe".

Approximately 108,000 migrants have arrived on the Greek islands in the first two months of the year, according to monitor Frontex.

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Approximately 108,000 migrants have arrived on the Greek islands in the first two months of the year

The Macedonian clampdown comes as Austria capped its daily intake of refugees at just 80 a day last week.

The tension along the Greek border came to a head on Monday when migrants violently clashed with police, who fired tear gas in response.

Mr Juncker said he was “really worried” by the backlog in Greece.

He said: “It is foreseeable that this will cause a huge humanitarian crisis."

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The tension along the Greek border came to a head on Monday when migrants violently clashed

The cash has been previously used in Somalia, Syria, South Sudan and Kosovo during humanitarian catastrophes

Mr Juncker added that the fund would become "a permanent feature" of the budget for any countries who cannot cope with emergencies including militant attacks and epidemics.

Macedonia, which is not in the EU, would not be able to access the cash supply as the border stand-off looks set to continue.

Christos Stylianides, the EU’s aid commissioner, said: "The cash ensures dignity for refugees while helping local communities because they will be selling their services and this contributes to better relations with host communities.

"The number of refugees continues to rise, so do their humanitarian needs.

“No time can be lost in deploying all means possible to prevent humanitarian suffering within our own borders."

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Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, the head of mission in Greece for Medecins Sans Frontieres, said aid agencies are already badly stretched.

She said: "We need money to manage this crisis. Europe is finally waking up after a year."

Officials stress that the program will not divert funds from the EU's massive £1billion annual budget allocated to helping the world's poorest in developing nations.

The aid package follows news yesterday from NATO that Russia was "weaponizing" the migration crisis.

The top NATO commander in Europe, General Philip M Breedlove of the United States Air Force, warned lawmakers that Russia was “deliberately weaponising migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve.”

General Breedlove also suggested that the Islamic State (ISIS) was taking advantage of the crisis to infiltrate the migrants “like a cancer,” and to threaten Europe and the United States.